Why are my contacts doubling up on my macbook and my calender doubling up on my iphone?

Why are my contacts doubling up on my macbook pro and my calender doubling up on my iphone?

Solarbiz,
I have the same issue.  No certain sense as to why it happened although it seemed to start after I was on the road and turned my iphone into airplane mode and went one step further and turned off a bunch of other services to ensure I was not hit with a big roaming bill.  I don't know but I suspect that turning those services back on may have been part of the reason.
I have found that in the case of my calendar,  going to icloud.com allowed me to delete the duplcated calendars rather than having to try and clean up specific enteries.
I am still looking for a solution for my contacts however.  On icloud.com I can delete duplicated groups, however the master list still shows duplicates for every entry.   When I am on my Mac I can filter "out" the icloud data and be left with a single set of my contacts.  It seems however that no matter what I do the syncing services thinks that I should have two of everything.  
BTW - using the find duplicates does not work.
I hope someone else can chime in with a more complete solution.  It is very strange as all worked well for a few months.

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